![]() ![]() ![]() The creeping surrealism often takes away your ability to blink, especially, I suspect, when, like me, you have no history with the show.Ĭomedy Central is still just a little afraid of this. Whether any of it is funny is almost beside the point. It's as if the show's editor was a spam bot. When celebrities appear on the show, they flub and stutter like robot hologram versions of themselves. They spout nonsense where platitudes and corporate messages usually go. It's just that they put unattractive, demented-seeming people in front of the green screen instead of the usual telegenic emoters. Their collages of chopped-and-screwed sounds with spastic motion graphics and sloppy green screen don't seem much different (in effect, if not production values) from what's on cable any given Sunday. The duo's work seems to flow directly from three sources: Bad corporate promotional and instructional videos, absurd local TV programming and assaultive blockbuster films. But it's likely that actor-writer-directors Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim took inspiration from none of these freaks. In them you can see DNA from Ernie Kovacs, John Waters, the Kuchar brothers, Robert Downey, Sr., Tom Rubnitz, early Beck music videos, Damon Packard, Aqua Teen Hunger Force (and every other Adult Swim psychotic episode) and Harmony Korine, to name just a random few. "Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie" is a lot like "Tim and Eric's Awesome Show, Great Job!." They're both experimental video art posing as sketch comedy. Votes from all four platforms are combined to make up the final tally."Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie" is available for streaming/download on iTunes, Amazon Instant, Vudu and YouTube. The poll is conducted via Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and YouTube. Each round begins at 16:00 UTC and lasts for 24 hours, with an episode only requiring a simple majority to advance to the next round. ![]() The popularity poll is contested by 64 episodes, with all places randomly drawn. ![]()
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